Two Ponds Two Species
January 26th, 2012
fiction and photography by R. V. Scaramella
The pond held Alligator Snapping and Red Eared Sliders. Underfoot the pattern snagged his eye, not an odd stone or lately popped leaf. Even with legs and neck extended, covered completely by a Kennedy fifty cent.
A long bus and a short bus of first graders stomped the park this day. One of their teachers had captured the man’s attention. He ushered the bantam turtle away from the trail and underneath an umbrella of leaves, no ride home in somebody’s stubby pants pocket, not today.
